Amplify Populations & Resources

When a population is stable:

• the are fewer births than deaths

• the number of births and deaths are equal

• the number of births is greater than the number of deaths

• organisms are not dying or being born at all

True or False: Within a population organisms are always being born and dying.

• True

• False

A system can be ________ even as things are being added to and removed from it. This is possible if they items being removed and added are equal.

• increasing

• decreasing

• stable

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If there are more births than deaths in a given time, then the size of the population will ______________.

• decrease

• be stable

• increase

If there are fewer births than deaths, then the size of the population will ______________.

• increase

• decrease

• be stable

Reproduction requires a lot of _______________.

• energy

• water

• organisms

• sample

ESMs stand for:

• Energy Sample Mirrors

• Energy Storage Molecules

• Elegant Summer Music

• Electric Storage Module

If owls are eating mice and getting energy storage molecules from the mice, which is the resource population?

• owls

• mice

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If owls are eating mice and getting energy storage molecules from the mice, which is the consumer population?

• mice

• owls

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True or False:

The less energy storage molecules available to a population, the more the organisms in that population can reproduce.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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